Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love on the edge of Penn’s wood, is known as a center of history.  You can just as easily think of Philadelphia as a center of innovative science and technology.  From Benjamin Franklin’s effort to catch lightning in a bottle (or at least with a kite) to University of Pennsylvania Research Professor Raymond Davis Jr.’s Nobel Prize winning study of the source of  x-rays in space to learn about the sun, Philadelphians have been at the leading edge of scientific discovery.

A quote attributed to William Penn says that knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.  The wealth of science is easily available in the Philadelphia area through the efforts of organizations such as the Franklin Institute Science Museum, The Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Mutter Museum. Unlike the jewels hidden away in the vaults of a bank or safely secured within glass showcases of the Museum of Art, a visitor is able to embrace these ideas and carry them home.  Once safely tucked into the recesses of their brain, these memories mingle with previous experiences and new thoughts… giving rise to the innovations of tomorrow.